Yanghu (221-278), the word uncle, was a native of Taishan Nancheng. Famous strategist, politician and man of letters. Erudite and literate, honest and upright, he married the daughter of Xiahou Ba.

He once refused Cao Shuang and Sima Zhao's many expeditions, and later worshipped for the imperial court. When Sima Zhao built the fifth-class lord system, he was awarded the title of Jupingzi and shared secrets with Xun Xun.

Sima Yan, the queen of Wei in the Jin Dynasty, had the heart to swallow Wu, and ordered Yanghu to sit in Xiangyang and supervise the military of Jingzhou. In the next ten years, Yanghu Tuntian Xingxue, with virtue and gentleness, won the hearts of the military and the people; On the one hand, he trained his soldiers, prepared them widely, made military and material preparations for the attack on Wu, and after the death of Wu's general Lu Kang, he asked for the attack on Wu, but was opposed by the ministers.

In the fourth year of Xianning (278), Yanghu returned to Luoyang with illness, died in November of the same year, and recommended Du to be his own generation before his death.

Yanghu was born in a family of famous scholars in the Han and Wei dynasties. From him to the ninth generation, there are people in all generations of the Yang family who have official positions of more than 2,000 stones, and they are all known for being honest and virtuous. Yanghu's grandfather Yang Xu served as Nanyang Taishou at the end of the Han Dynasty, his father Yang Wei was the Shangdang Taishou during the Cao Wei period, and his mother Cai was the daughter of Cai Yong, a famous Confucian in the Han Dynasty and Zuo Zhonglang, and her sister married Sima Shi, the son of Sima Yi.

Yanghu lost his father at the age of twelve, and his filial piety and mourning exceeded ordinary etiquette. He was also very respectful in serving his uncle.

He once played on the edge of Wenshui and met an old man who said that he "has a good appearance and is not yet 60 years old, and he will make great contributions to the world." After the old man finished speaking, he left, not knowing where he was.

When Yanghu grew up, he was well-read, good at writing, and good at argumentation. And the demeanor is chic, seven feet three inches long, and the eyebrows are beautiful. The county general Xiahouwei thought that he was not an ordinary person and married the daughter of his brother Xiahouba to him. Yanghu was recommended as a senior official, and the state officials recruited him four times to engage in and show talents, and the five prefectures (the collective name of the five kinds of official offices in ancient times, with different references) also appointed him one after another.

Since at this time there was an internal struggle for supreme power within the ruling class of Cao Wei, this struggle was mainly waged between the Cao clique and the Sima clique, and Yanghu and both sides of the struggle were related by marriage. The sheep in the middle of the gap did not want to be involved in the whirlpool, so he adopted an evasive attitude and did not agree.

Guo Yi, a native of Taiyuan, said after seeing him: "This is today's face."

In 239 A.D. (the third year of the beginning of the Jing Dynasty), Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming died, and Cao Fang, the king of Qi who succeeded to the throne, was only eight years old. The general Cao Shuang and the imperial lieutenant Sima Yi were ordered to assist the government, and the struggle between the two groups became increasingly intense. In the early years, the Cao Shuang Group had a clear advantage in the struggle. Cao Shuang squeezed Sima Yi out of the idle position of Taifu, and put the power of commanding the forbidden army and controlling the cardinal positions into the hands of his brothers and henchmen, thus controlling the real power of the government.

Sima Yi implemented a trick of obscurity, pretending to be sick, but secretly stepped up arrangements and waited for an opportunity to counterattack. Although Yanghu is young, he is very politically minded. He judged that Cao Shuang would not be Sima Yi's opponent after all.

Later, Yanghu and Wang Shen were conscripted by Cao Shuang together, and Wang Shen persuaded Yanghu to take office, and Yanghu said: "How easy is it to entrust people to do things." Wang Shen answered the call alone. Due to the relationship between the clans, although Yanghu was basically outside the struggle between the two groups, in terms of ideology and feelings, he was closer to the Sima faction.

In the first ten years (249), Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion, killed Cao Shuang, and seized military and political power. After the coup, Sima Yi cut off the Cao Shuang group in a big way, and many people related to Cao Shuang were implicated. Yanghu's father-in-law, Xiahou Ba, surrendered to Shu in order to escape the killing.

Wang Shen was also dismissed because he was Cao Shuang's former official, so he said to Yanghu: "Common sense. But he comforted him, saying, "This is not the first thing to be considered." He was like that, both prescient and unwilling to boast. In this disaster, Yanghu was not punished for his father-in-law's surrender to Shu, which was probably due to his pro-Sima political attitude.

Xiahou Ba surrendered to Shu, and his relatives were afraid of being implicated, so most of them cut off relations with their families. Soon after, Yanghu's mother and eldest brother Yangfa died one after another. Yanghu has been mourning for more than ten years, during which he has regarded himself as a Taoist, dignified and simple, just like a Confucian.

In 255 A.D. (the second year of Zhengyuan), Sima Shi died of illness, and Sima Zhao was in power as a general. Sima Zhao served as a general and conquered Yanghu, but Yanghu did not respond to the order. As a result, the imperial court bus enlisted Yanghu as the Zhongshu waiter, and soon he was promoted to the middle of the matter and Huangmenlang. When Emperor Wei was a noble townsman, Cao Chao, loved literature, and the incumbent wanted to inherit the will of the emperor and offered more poems, and the Runan people and Di were belittled for disobeying the will. Yanghu was in the imperial court, although he was among the scholars and doctors, but he was upright and never kissed and neglected, so people of insight respected him very much.

During the period of King Cao Huan of Chenliu, Yanghu was named the Marquis of Guannei, and there were 100 households in the city. Because Yanghu didn't think much of the Son of Heaven in his heart, he didn't want to be a servant anymore and asked to go out. Later, it was changed to secretary and superintendent.

In the last years of Cao Wei, the Sima clan was completely dominant, and Sima Yi's father and son and brothers ruled one after another. They successively abolished two emperors, repeatedly killed ministers, changed the rules and systems, issued orders, and became de facto rulers without the title of emperor. At this time, Yanghu had joined the Sima Group and gradually rose to become an important figure in the group.

Sima Yan built a fifth-class lord system, and Yanghu was named Jupingzi for his merits, with 600 households.

At that time, Zhong Hui was quite favored by the Son of Heaven, but his heart was jealous, and Yanghu was afraid of him and stayed away. After Zhong Hui was executed, Yang Hu appointed Xiangguo as Zhonglang, and shared secrets with Sima Yan's other henchman Xun Xuan.

On the eve of Wei in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan transferred Yanghu as the leader of the central army, and was on duty in the palace, commanding the imperial forest army, and taking charge of internal and external political affairs.

In December 266 (the second year of Xianxi), Sima Yan was proclaimed emperor by Chan and established the Western Jin Dynasty, known as Emperor Wu of Jin in history. Because Yanghu has the merit of supporting him, he was promoted to the general of the Chinese army, and he was a regular attendant of the Jiasan cavalry, and he was the county prince and had 3,000 households. Yanghu was afraid of arousing the jealousy of Jia Chong and other powerful ministers, so he insisted on being a duke and only accepted the marquis, so he was made a marquis by the lord Jupingzi, set up the Lang Zhong Order, prepared the post of nine officials, and awarded his wife a seal.

In the early years of Taishi, Emperor Wu of Jin issued an edict: "The husband is always balanced, and the six positions are allowed, and the foundation of the government is also." Hu Zhide Qingshao, loyal and pure, longitudinal and weft civil and military, honest and upright, although in the heart of the responsibility, but not always the cardinal's weight, non-vertical arch inaction for the commission of responsibility also. It takes Hu as the right servant of Shangshu to shoot, Wei general, and gives the soldiers of the battalion". At that time, Wang You, Jia Chong, Pei Xiu and others were all highly respected ministers of the previous dynasty, and Yanghu was humble to them.

Emperor Wu of Jin was called the emperor, and he was known to swallow Wu. He actively planned a war to eliminate the Sun Wu regime in order to achieve the great cause of unifying the whole country.

In 69 years (the fifth year of the beginning of Tai), Sima Yan not only appointed the generals Wei Qian and Sima Ling to divide the towns of Linzi and Xiapi to strengthen the military arrangement of Sun Wu, but also specially transferred Yanghu to be the governor of all the armies in Jingzhou. At that time, the Western Jin Dynasty and Sun Wu each had a Jingzhou, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south. Jingzhou in the Western Jin Dynasty included present-day Shaanxi, a small part of Henan, and the northern region of Hubei. Jingzhou in the state of Wu had most of present-day Hubei and Hunan. The border between Jin and Wu was the longest in Jingzhou, so it was a key area in the war to destroy Wu.

After Yanghu arrived, he found that the situation in Jingzhou was not stable. Not only was the people's lives not stable enough, but even the garrison's rations were insufficient. Therefore, Yanghu first focused on the development of Jingzhou. Yanghu opened a large number of schools, set up education, appeased the people, and conceived people from afar. And treat the people of Wu openly and honestly, and those who surrender can decide whether to stay or not. It is also forbidden to demolish the old government offices. At that time, it was customary that if the official died in the official office, the successor would say that the residence was unlucky, and often demolished the old mansion and built another one. Yanghu believes that life and death are life, not in the room, and orders subordinates, all forbidden. The most important thing was that the design made the Wu State withdraw the Shicheng garrison, which posed the greatest threat to Xiangyang, and the Wu Shicheng garrison was more than 700 miles away from Xiangyang and often intruded on the border. Yanghu thought it was a problem, so he used a clever trick to make Wu withdraw the garrison. Then he divided the army into two halves, half for patrolling and garrisoning, and half for cultivating fields. In that year, the whole army cultivated more than 800 hectares of land. When Yanghu first arrived, the army did not even have food for a hundred days, and later, the food savings could be used for ten years. These measures by Yanghu quickly stabilized the social order in Jingzhou and enhanced the combat effectiveness of the army. In recognition of his merits, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty ordered the abolition of all the governors of Jiangbei and awarded Yanghu the position of general of Nanzhonglang, responsible for commanding all the armies in the Jiangxia region of eastern Han.

In the army, Yanghu often wore a light and warm fur coat, a loose belt, and no armor. Under the Ling Pavilion, there were only a dozen soldiers who were ordered to guard. In addition, he likes to hunt and fish, and often neglects his official duties. One night, he wanted to go out of the camp, and the military Sima Xu Yin blocked the camp gate with a halberd in his hand and said: "The general is in charge of thousands of miles, and Anke is light!" The safety of the general is also the safety of the country. If Yin dies today, this door will be opened." Yanghu changed his appearance, apologized again and again, and rarely went out from then on.

Soon, Yanghu was crowned as a general of the chariot cavalry, and received special treatment from the opening of the palace such as the three ceremonies. Yang Hu is on the table and resigned. But the court did not agree to his resignation. This year, Yanghu was forty-nine years old.

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